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Body Biography Of Mae Mobley

Eyes

I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the negro side of town. I want to stop that moment from coming – and it come in every white child's life – when they start to think that colored folks are not as good as whites. (Stockett 120).

Heart

"'The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."

Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again” (Stockett 235).

Symbolism

Quote

“You is kind, you is smart. You is important.” (Stockett 443).

Background

"Miss Leefolt point at the door an door, yell, 'Aibileen, you both just get out' I carry her out the kitchen. I'm so mad at Miss Leefolt, I'm biting my tongue. If the fool would just pay her child some attention, this wouldn't happen!" Stockett 22

Backbone

Film Scene

"You a smart girl.You a kind girl, Mae Mobley. You hear me? And I keep saying it till she repeat it back to me." Stockett 107

"I told you to eat in your high chair, Mae Mobley. How I ended up with you when all my freinds have angels I just do not know..." Stockett 107

"Martian Luther King. He a real nice Martian, Mister King. but sometime, people looked at him funny and sometime, well, he downright mean.

Why Aibee? Why was they so mean to him?

Cause he was green.

" ' Morning, Baby Girl,' I say 'Mama! Mama!' she say, trying to crawl up in Miss Leefolts lap." Stockett 21

"Baby Girl grab the skirt a my uniform and don't let go. I touch my hand to her forehead and she burning with a fever.' Baby, you need to get back in bed.' ' Noooo,' she bawls. ' Don't gooo , Aibee' " Stockett 519

"And fore I know it, all three kids in there, splashing around, having a good time" Stockett 216

Mae Mobley Acrostic Poem

Miss Leefolt’s daughter

Attentive

Estranged from the social customs of the town

Matures from a follower to a leader

Open minded

Bears shame from her mother

Likeable

Energetic

Youthful

Feet

"Mae Mobley, I say cause I got a notion to try something. "You a smart girl?" She just look at me, like she don't know. "You a smart girl," I say again. She say, "Mae Mo smart." I say, "You a kind little girl?" She just look at me. She two years old. She don't know what she is yet. I say, "You a kind girl," and she nod, repeat it back to me. But before I can do another one, sheb get up and chase that poor dog around the yard and laugh and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, every day?” (Stockett 107).

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